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The failure of the Federal government in 1797 to back up the ambitions of Kentucky led the powerful men of the state, through their organ, the Gazette, the only paper thus far published in the state, to attack the administration fiercely, and even General Washington himself. Writers then declared that, if the Federal government did not take Louisiana and put an end to the intolerable situation, they, themselves, would make the conquest of Louisiana. It was in this way that the Federalists, by their indifference to the demands of the west, lost control over a large section of the country.

Joseph H. Daveiss, District Attorney, in his loyalty to the Union, attempted to arouse the community when he